Article
Unscrambling thermal stability and temperature adaptation in evolved variants of a cold-active lipase.
FEBS letters - 25 Jun 2008
Gatti-Lafranconi Pietro, Caldarazzo Serena M, Villa Alessandra, Alberghina Lilia, Lotti Marina
Abstract excerpt
Directed evolution by error-prone PCR was applied to stabilize the cold-active lipase from Pseudomonas fragi (PFL). PFL displays high activity at 10 degrees C, but it is highly unstable even at moderate temperatures. After two rounds of evolution, a variant was generated with a 5-fold increase in half-life at 42 degrees C and a shift of 10 degrees C in the temperature optimum, nevertheless retaining...
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- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cold Temperature
- Directed Molecular Evolution
- Enzyme Stability
- Hot Temperature
